Shriram Krishnamurthi <xxxxxx@cs.rice.edu> writes:

> as a procedure application.  Can I therefore write
>
>   (set! ((lambda (x) x) y) V)
>
> using your SRFI?  Your follow-up message suggests not, but nothing in
> the SRFI precludes this.  Furthermore, precluding this seems to be
> inconsistent with your desire to be "in the ``spirit of Scheme''".

It is valid syntactically.  It expands to:
        ((setter (lambda (x) x)) y V)
But since (lambda (x) x) does not have a setter associated
with it, you'd get a (run-time) error.

But this is allowed:

        (set! ((if (random) car cdr) x) v)
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